Let's go cow tipping in the Spring, shall we? That, of course, is when "rural citizens", for want of anything better to do, sneak up upon an unsuspecting cow and push it over. Apparently, it's been all the rage for decades down our neck of the woods in East Tennessee.
Udder chaos? A tiresome form of lactose intolerance? Disrepect for Sir Loin? ........Or simply impossible?
A UBC student, Tracy Boechler, calculated a few years ago that a cow of 1.45 metres in height pushed at an angle of 23.4 degrees relative to the ground would require 2,910 Newtons of force, equivalent to 4.43 people. That means ya can't do it alone, yer know. What's more cows have the annoying tendency to notice you coming and move away. And further complicating the task is that cow tipping protagonists must of course be uniformly plastered. Therefore, it must indeed be extraordinarily difficult.
But it really doesn't sound impossible to me. Earplug the cow, get a team of five, start drinking but plan on carving out a moment of lucidity, concentration and coordination to creep up soundlessly and all push together simultaneously. Whaddaya think? Worth a try, worth a try....
well, we needed three. (teenagers).
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether our cows were taller and narrower than the American ones, but it was fun - and a bit dangerous, because while most of the times the cows were to afraid and ran away, sometimes they would get "angry" and we had to run...
too afraid..
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